LSW advised IS Dongseo on its acquisition of BTS Technology for approximately PLN 120 million

LSW has advised S Dongseo Co. Ltd on its acquisition of BTS Technology for approximately PLN 120 million.

ISD is a South Korea-listed waste management and construction company. BTS is an electric vehicle battery recycling business that also offers waste recycling, management, storage and transportation services in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.

BTS operates a number of electric vehicle battery recycling units in Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. It controls half of Europe’s waste battery collection market.

BTS is building a plant in Poland to pre-process waste batteries from cells to modules. Once completed, it will be able to process EV battery scraps collected from about 50,000 EVs, or up to 100,000 units, annually. Located near LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s battery-producing plant in Wroclaw, BTS Poland factory is five minutes from the entrance of the highway and near the German border.

The acquisition will help ISD's growth into the battery recycling market in Europe, the world's largest EV market.

LSW’s team was led by Partner Aleksandra Polak and included Edyta Niemyska (Partner), Katarzyna Michalik (Counsel) and Joanna Markowicz-Maciocha (Senior Associate),

LSW worked with international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and South Korean law firm LAB Partners.